Abdullah cuts down Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel, while reorienting his policy on détente with Turkey, Syria, Qatar

Jordan’s King Abdullah notified Israel on Sunday, Oct. 21, that he will not renew two annexes of the peace treaty which his father King Hussein signed with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1994. They granted Israel ownership rights for 25 years under Jordanian sovereignty in the Naharayim/Baqura and the Zofar/Al Ghamr areas of the Arava region of southern Israel, which Israeli farmers have been working.

While the announcement came two days after a big anti-Israeli demonstration in Amman, DEBKAfile’s sources disclose that it is part of a calculated move by the Jordanian monarch to bring his kingdom into alignment with Turkey, Syria and Qatar. In recent days, his prime minister, Dr. Omar al-Razzaz, has been holding intensive talks with Turkish ministers in an effort to persuade Ankara to stop routing its export goods to the Gulf via Haifa port and send them instead through Syria and Jordan. To this end, Jordan earlier this month reopened its Nassib border crossing with Syria, against strong objections from Washington and Jerusalem. The king is in the process of mending his ties with Syria’s Bashar Assad and looks forward to an early visit to Amman by an impressive Syrian official delegation headed by Foreign Minister Walid Moallem.

Qatar is performing a dual role: On the one hand, Doha is funding Israeli fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip in an effort to de-escalate Hamas-Israeli tensions, while, on the other, trying to tempt Jordan’s King to come over to its side and abandon his ties with Qatar’s rival, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah hopes Riyadh, in its weakened state following the Khashoggi affair, will not notice his desertion.

Going back on the two peace treaty annexes with Israel serves the Jordanian monarch’s evolving alignment with three allies, two of whom are hostile to Israel. He hopes his new orientation will help channel the rising domestic unrest over his failure to resolve the kingdom’s galloping economic crisis. Muslim Brotherhood activists, led by the Brotherhood’s Palestinian offshoot Hamas, have been stirring up the trouble, demanding abrogation of the peace treaty with Israel and the closure of the Israeli embassy in Amman. Hamas is in fact using Jordan as the stage for a second front against Israel as well as the Gaza Strip.

50 thoughts on “Abdullah cuts down Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel, while reorienting his policy on détente with Turkey, Syria, Qatar”

Of course the best thing would be the end of his fake regime. Then the fakestanains in judea and samaria could join their brothers in eastern eretz yisroel before finally moving out into arabia where they belong

Prior to June 1967, King Hussein of Jordan could have given what’s known as the “West Bank” independence……………………….but he didn’t.
Prior to June 1967, President Nasser of Egypt could have given Gaza independence………………………….but he didn’t.
The rest is history.

“Sooner or later Jordan will be the real independent Palestinian state”

@supermartel,

That almost happened in 1970 with the Palestinian terrorist group Black September………….with King Abdullah’s dad mowing down more Palestinians at that time than were killed in 1948 (with no complaints from any other Arab country at that time as well).

Another good reason (as if we need more) to avoid making agreements with Muslim countries or entities. Eventually the Islamic tribalism will kick in and whatever your previous agreement, they will revert to the violence and conquest inherent in Islam.

The Islamic world is expanding in every direction and in every country. Israel remains small and confined in terms of landmass and has not expanded at all. I suppose you think that the ever-expanding numbers of Terrorstinians are experiencing a “genocide.” If so, it is the most preposterous genocide in history with their numbers expanding and they are the best-fed and most spoiled prisoners in the world with jailers and sadists from among their own Terrorstinisn people.

When we were, people like you destroyed us. And now you are destroying Europeans and their Jews by replacing them with an invasion of Islamics. It is all part of a UN plan. The Left are the new fascists.

“Another good reason (as if we need more) to avoid making agreements with Muslim countries or entities. Eventually the Islamic tribalism will kick in and whatever your previous agreement, they will revert to the violence and conquest inherent in Islam.”

Just noticed that commenting was permitted again. I urge all to keep foul language from this site or commenting will be disallowed once more. I read this site everyday and was saddened by the frequent foul comments everywhere. Peace.

If you have something to say, then say it. If you want to control other people’s thoughts, minds and feelings, then go back to mainstream media and the part of the Internet now controlled by Google, Facebook and Twitter. Those mega-techs will protect your delicate sensibilities and provide all the lies your tender ears/eyes are accustomed to hearing/seeing.

“living under apartheid regime will effect people . that is a given.—————-”

@Anonymous,

The most perfect example of that being President Assad’s iron fist control over Syria…………even though he is a member of a minority sect in that country.
Prior to the Syrian Civil War, not one complaint from the Arab League or from Western “progressives”.
So in this case, you’re right: the Syrian people were certainly affected by what should have been labelled as apartheid but left wing advocates just weren’t “on the ball” on this one.

“Jordan’s King Abdullah notified Israel on Sunday, Oct. 21, that he will not renew two annexes of the peace treaty which his father King Hussein signed with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1994. They granted Israel ownership rights for 25 years under Jordanian sovereignty in the Naharayim/Baqura and the Zofar/Al Ghamr areas of the Arava region of southern Israel, which Israeli farmers have been working.”

That translates to what was once desert and was made to bloom, will revert back to desert again…………………just another fine day in the Middle East!

The angry comments ignore the simple fact that Jordan is not breaking any agreement, nor is it backing out of any agreement. Debka has this wrong, as well. There was no agreement giving Israel ownership of these areas. They were actually leased for 25 years, and either side has the express right, under the agreement, to decide not to renew, as long as it gives a year notice. That’s what Jordan has done, announce its intent not to renew the lease.
When the peace accord with Jordan was signed, the 25 year period was meant to give time for the other peace accords to be worked out. That never happened. the expiration of the lease is the result of that. for those whose response is that arabs don’t keep agreements, these did. It is you who are advocating breaking agreements with them, and even overthrowing their government. Think about that for a moment before you call me the names that you will obviously call me

That completely ignores the subject. We signed a treaty that allowed for this. Which treaty can you point to concerning the Temple Mount? None. You are angry at them and you want retribution, but that is a veeeeeery different argument. Also, the worst thing Israel can do to itself is take over the Temple Mount.

An agreement with Islamists is another name for a Hudna – as long as the agreement rewards the Islamists it is fine; when it involves give and take and not all take, they bail. They they go back to war, conquest and terrorism to win another Hudna that pays them rashua.

Israel’s military might, backed up by the USA, has enabled Abdullah’s survival.
If Israel was to announce today, that it had no interest in whether or not Abdullah’s rule over Jordan continued, Abdullah would be gone, within a week.